Hi, Frank: Is your modem internal or external? If it is a full modem and it is internal it will appear as a uart. If your BIOS displays hardware configuration at bootup, watch for the extra serial port in 'the box'.
If it is external, you may need to guess its speed, parity, and 7 or 8 bits. Once you can communicate with an external modem send it ATI4 and if it is Hayes Command Set compatible, it will tell you about itself. I purchased an alleged 'full modem' some years ago only to find out it was a 'winmodem'. :-( The last one I bought was a 56k and cost about 34 USD. HTH, Chuck Frank Roberts - SOTL wrote: > > Thanks Ray > > Actually your response is very close to my intent. > > What I am trying to do is identify which port I have a modem which may or may > not be a win modem connected to. > It was purchased as a full modem but I sincerely question that it is. > > As far as using minicom that is another slight problem there in that for some > reason I do not have minicom functioning correctly or something resulting in > that being the next major issue to be resolved since I need minicom for > another major reason. > > Isn't there a command that allows one to "ping" a modem from the command line > and which returns the modem identification annd type? I seem to recall that > there is but I can not recall it but again this may be falty network memory. > > Thanks > Frank > > On Saturday 14 December 2002 20:19, Ray Olszewski wrote: > > At 08:14 PM 12/14/02 -0500, Frank Roberts - SOTL wrote: > > >Hi All > > > > > >Question: > > > >From the command line how does one determine which port a modem is on? > > > > It depends on exactly what you mean. I'm guessing that you intend to refer > > to a situation where you have 2 or more serial ports in a computer, and a > > modem conencted to one of them, but the ports are unlabeled so you dont > > know which one the modem is attached to. In that case, I would use a > > terminal app (such as minicom) to connect to each port, and see which port > > (actuall, its associated /dev/ttyS* entry) gets responses from the modem to > > typical AT commands. > > > > There are many more things you *might* mean, though. So if I've guessed > > wrong (and someone else does not guess right), please post a followup that > > asks the question in a different, more specific form. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
